Pith Number

pith:O2HDPW6E

pith:2016:O2HDPW6E6CKPZGALOYZJBTGDYF

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Polynomials and Second Order Linear Recurrences

Shankar M.Venkatesan, Soumyabrata Pal

arxiv:1608.06404 v2 · 2016-08-23 · math.CO

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{O2HDPW6E6CKPZGALOYZJBTGDYF}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:04:53.272141Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

768e37dbc4f094fc980b763290ccc3c14ecbd5db54d7e6d7ef130f1891a4aa42

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.06404 · arxiv_version: 1608.06404v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.06404 · pith_short_12: O2HDPW6E6CKP · pith_short_16: O2HDPW6E6CKPZGAL · pith_short_8: O2HDPW6E

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/O2HDPW6E6CKPZGALOYZJBTGDYF \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 768e37dbc4f094fc980b763290ccc3c14ecbd5db54d7e6d7ef130f1891a4aa42

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "41db9a71b4ecaf4ae25526ab3c9bde8d24ca455a1f37bdf61e68313a2306f21c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.CO",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-23T07:14:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "72fb881f60e7f6b105cd38865477e3c622e2bde3eae290f5637cdd2b4075537b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.06404",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}